Showing posts with label Iron Man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iron Man. Show all posts

Monday, April 29, 2019

"We're not actors, mister! I assume you've heard of the Avengers priority card?"

Disney bought Marvel Studios ten years ago, putting it in charge of the big-screen adventures of Iron Man and his fellow Avengers. Disney's acquisition of the film and TV assets of 21st Century Fox was finalized last month, meaning it's also now in charge of Marvel characters whose big-screen rights were previously owned by Fox, including the Thing and the rest of his supergroup, the Fantastic Four.

Comcast, which owns Universal Pictures, the studio behind the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, attempted to outbid Disney for Fox's assets last year. One day soon Disney may be rich enough to swallow Comcast whole, and if that happens don't be surprised if the March 1983 issue of Marvel Two-in-One makes a synergistic leap from the page to the screen.


Thursday, April 30, 2015

All for one, and one for all, but one is better than all y'all.

Loki was the heavy in The Avengers (2012), so it's only fair that he's the supervillain equivalent of Diet Dr Pepper Cherry. But just because Hawkeye and Black Widow lack superpowers doesn't mean they're Diet Dr Peppers. I think they should be reassigned as Dr Pepper Cherrys, leaving Nick Fury, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., as the sole Diet Dr Pepper.


The only opinion that matters, however, is Robert Downey Jr.'s.

Correction: Robert Downey Jr.'s agent, because that's who negotiated for Downey's name, and Downey's name only, to be placed above the title in the contractual credits on the ensemble film's one-sheet.

That guy or gal is the real superhero.